I feel like I'm getting edged by this book. The slow buildup of suspense and confusion and sense of conspiracy is great.But I'm now at the point where Oedipa meets some guy in a gay bar that tells her about WASTE mailboxes and the founder of the lonely hearts club that uses them. There are only like 30-40 pages left in the book and I feel like the ending will be an anticlimax or dead end like the guy in the bar.I guess I get the thematic significance of an ending like that (reminds me of the movie Under the Silver Lake sorta), but man it feels like I just got baited and then left with blue balls.Thanks for listening to my blog, what do you think anon? Comment in the comments section below
>>24867845>There are only like 30-40 pages left in the book and I feel like the ending will be an anticlimax Just settle back and await :^)
>>24867845The last part of the book is where all the best prose lies. That and the section about the alcoholic ex-sailor or whatever, I forget the details.
>>24867883but is the book about the prose
>>24867845I guarantee you cannot predict the ending. The novela was a lot of fun and got me into Pynchon. I loved the bit about the cityscape viewed at a distance resembling at computer chip.
Ending was so predictable it was hilarious.
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>>24867845There's a lot of shit that happens with some strikingly emotional prose. You might like it, you might not, but worst case you can consider this a set up for resolution in Gravity's Rainbow
>>24867845Honestly one of his better books, I don't know why people underrate it.
>>24868499hell ya that shit is fire
>>24868499OOOOOF pynchon himself considers it shit big L for you dude
>>24868542death of the author who cares
>>24868544Too soon dude
>>24868542lmao wrekt
>>24868542 >source>/lit/ threadskillyourself my dude
>>24868686Why do you think his source is /lit/ threads?
>>24868542Why should I care what an author thinks of their own work?
>>24868542Yeah, I'm on team pynchon if only because he's forgotten more about literature than everyone on /lit combined ever knew
>>24868904because it can help to enrich your understanding of the workman /lit/ has gone downhill
I think it is crazy that he hates COL49, although I understand that artists will have a unique relationship with their own work. As a result, it is simultaneously unsurprising.
>>24867845I think you ought to finish reading a book before discussing it, especially if it is a shorter book like this one.Personally, I really enjoyed the book (including the ending). I found it a bit of a slow burn until the play, but after that I couldn't put it down.
